Slate critic likes Tatu

I hesitate to break my long silence with something this fluffy, but this story is worth checking out if you have any familiarity with or interest in the Russian pop music scene. The music critic on internet magazine Slate, an enclave of the American intelligentsia (to the extent that there is such a thing), not only loved Tatu's "All the Things She Said" (the English-language version, sort of, of "Ya Soshla s Uma"), but was surprised by the quality of the duo's latest release:

t.A.T.u., the most shameless of all manufactured pop sensations, have become critics' darlings. Dangerous and Moving can be described, without reservations, as a very good second album. It's stronger and stranger than the debut, and t.A.T.u.'s improbably winning songwriting formula—equal parts Roxette, Nine Inch Nails, and Buddha Bar—has, by now, been sharpened into the kind of sound you recognize from the opening bar.

Guess it must be worth a listen. I haven't heard the new album, so I don't really have anything to say about it, but I do remember that their first album was much more enjoyable than one might have guessed.